My Job Is Scaring You

Tag: WoW

  • A Month Back in Azeroth

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    “So, what if something major changed?” My friend asked me this about going back to WoW. “Sure,” I said. “If something major changed, I’d be willing to give it another shot.” Then Microsoft did a thing and I am back in Azeroth playing Classic and Classic TBC. Many of the old problems are still there,…

  • A Decision…

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    After yesterday’s post, I decided to try some other multiplayer games to see how I would feel about returning to WoW. A few rounds of Among Us reminded me that people can brigade, can have private chat channels for spreading information (false, true, and otherwise), and that other people don’t care if they grief you.…

  • An Unusual Conundrum…

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    A friend of mine from my World of Warcraft days sent me an email. He’s playing WoW’s “Season of Mastery” and wants me to play with him. I know what he wants—and he wasn’t shy about telling me—he wants me to be a healbot for his raids. But that’s fine: I’m a phenomenal healer. The…

  • The “World of Warcraft Community Council” Won’t Work. There’s a Better Way to Gather Useful Customer Feedback.

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    Recently, the developers of World of Warcraft announced the creation of a “Community Council”–a means of gathering feedback from players and allowing select players to interact with the development team. This is a bad move on Blizzard’s part and I should know; I have first-hand experience being on a community council for a large, rabid,…

  • Victory? Not Quite…

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    A year ago, I left World of Warcraft citing two reasons: The continued presence of Gorge the Corpsegrinder based on the homophobe George Fischer from Cannibal Corpse and, The presence of in-game cultural artifacts given to the Horde that the Alliance do not have (to-wit, two rock bands). The first point has been remedied. The…

  • WoW’s Toxic Community: I Blame the Forums

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    Instead of blaming Asmongold for WoW’s toxic community, the Blizzard developers would do well to look at how they manage their forums. Anyone who complains about the game and how developers treat classes and factions is immediately ostracized, harassed, or even given a ban or warning without much of an appeal allowed. As long as…

  • Fire Samwise Didier Now

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    Activision-Blizzard owes Alliance players and gay players a sincere apology for Didier’s continued homophobia and lop-sided hate of the Alliance. They can manifest this by firing Samwise Didier.

  • The Calculus of a Game’s Decline

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    The relationship between the toxic work environment at Blizzard and the game’s steady decline since the end of Wrath of the Lich King are very possibly linked. Consider that a toxic workplace scares away employees. The best employees have the best skills and therefore the best job prospects. They will leave first. The people left…

  • Activision-Blizzard Fans Responses Are Flawed

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    I’ve been looking at the WoW forums and seeing a lot of people saying that the developers are innocent until proven guilty. Well, that’s not true. This isn’t a criminal case, it’s a civil case brought by an agency against a company. As companies aren’t people (despite what the SCOTUS has ruled), then there is…

  • Activision-Blizzard: Well, I Did Inform You Thusly…

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    Over a decade ago, on multiple forums across the Internet, I sounded the alarm about Blizzard’s openly toxic and homophobic corporate culture. I was mocked and ridiculed. Then I was proven right. Blizzard tried to make a few changes to smooth things over (especially after George “Fucks His Mama’s Corpse” Fissure was platformed at BlizzCon…